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“Jolie laide = "pretty ugly" Draws you to it...bored into heart and mind.”

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Justina Chen is an American Chinese author born in 1968. Her works often focus on the experiences and identity of Asian Americans, which are deeply loved by readers. more

“What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk.”

Self Pain Meditation Wine Drinking Senses Drivers Milk Agony Bowls Rice Carts Fleeing Inns Coconuts Numbing Pointlessness

Book:The 10 Greatest Books of All Time

Source: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time

“[True beauty] seeps into you. It doesn't make you forget yourself, but totally the opposite. It connects you with everything and fills you with awe that you share the same space with something that glorious. Like a sunrise or a clear blue day or the most extraordinary piece of glass. And then suddenly...you have this epiphany that there's more to the world than just you and what you want or even who you are.”

World Want Space Forget Clear Pieces Share Opposites Blue Who You Are Extraordinary Glasses What You Want Glorious Awe Sunrise Epiphany True Beauty North Of Beautiful

Author:Justina Chen

“I hated roses. I hated them for being so trite, so clichéd, a default, all-purpose flower that said I love you, I'm sorry, and get well soon. Give me peonies and tulips, orchids or gardenia. Those were flowers with character.”

Giving Wells Said Character Purpose Love You Flower Give Me Rose Sorry Hated I'm Sorry Default Get Well Orchids Peonies Get Well Soon Well Soon

Author:Justina Chen

“Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.”

Streets Stealing

Book:Siddhartha

Source: Siddhartha

“Physical beauty wasn't the same as True Beauty, any more than pretty ugly meant truly ugly or Magnetic North meant True North.”

Ugly True Beauty Magnetic Physical Beauty True North

Author:Justina Chen

“He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured.”

Littles Suffering Pleasure Saws Mankind Becoming Sake Gray Unworthy Despised Childlike Toiling

Author:Hermann Hesse

“Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all.”

Said Moving Saws Happened Singing Rivers Laughed Glances Always Moving

Book:Siddhartha (World Classics, Unabridged)

Source: Siddhartha (World Classics, Unabridged)

“Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?”

Left Listening Excuse Tone Left Alone Excuse Me Operators No One Listening

Author:Melina Marchetta

“When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And I didn't. When I woke in the dark under that tree on the road to Leoch, with you sitting on my chest, cursing me for bleeding to death, I said to myself 'Jamie Fraser, for all ye canna see what she looks like, and for all she weights as much as a good draft horse, this is the woman.”

Looks Said Dark Doubt Tree Sitting Weight Horse No Doubt Chests Bleeding Jamie Cursing Outlander Jamie Fraser

Book:The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

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